Tagged: Poverty

Almost half of all children in some UK cities are estimated to be living in poverty, new figures reveal, amid warnings that welfare reforms are leading to an “emerging child poverty crisis”. An analysis...

Britain’s record on tackling poverty has reached a turning point and is at risk of unravelling, following the first sustained rises in child and pensioner poverty for two decades, a major report has warned....

Deep reforms to the state pension affecting more than a million women have saved the Treasury £5bn a year but also “substantially” increased poverty rates, a major new study has revealed. The analysis sets...